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Louisville, KY needs rail service to Indianapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati and Nashville.
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I would to see it come to Owensboro as well. I remember when I was a little girl playing in my back yard waving at people on the train. It’s has been one of my dreams to ride on a train.
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Owensboro area is in need of Amtrek services. It would be amazing to have the return of passenger rail transportation. It would open up a whole new world to the younger generation!!
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We would love to see proposed passenger rail routes from Indianapolis to Louisville and down to Nashville included. Cincinnati would also be ideal but priority is the I-65 corridor given traffic counts.
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Please bring back passenger rail searvice t Nashville, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis.
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Any statewide rail plan that does not focus on passenger rail is missing a once-in-a-generation opportunity. For the first time in decades (if ever), the federal government is (rightfully) focused on building out a national passenger rail system that connects cities across the country. Nearly every one of Kentucky’s neighbors are in the process of applying for funds or even operationalizing routes. There is no reason that Kentucky’s cities and towns shouldn’t be connected to each other and to the major metropolises to our North and South.
Thank you for your time.
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The plan needs to include proposed passenger rail routes from Louisville to Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Nashville. Louisville Metro government has expressed interest in these routes and KIPDA, their Metropolitan Planning Organization, has already applied for and received federal planning funding for the Indy route.
In addition, the Federal Railroad Administration is in the process of conducting a long-distance route expansion study, and after several public meetings has proposed fifteen new long distance routes, two of which would go through Kentucky.
One would be a passenger route from Chicago to Miami, which would go through Indianapolis, Louisville and Nashville, and would almost certainly include stops in Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, and perhaps other Kentucky cities and towns along the way. Another proposed route would go from Detroit to New Orleans via Cincinnati, Louisville and Nashville, providing passenger service to the same cities and towns, but also serving such locations as Carrollton and Covington along the way.
Please include these passenger rail routes in the rail plan update.
Thank you for your consideration.
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As a follow up to the comment I just submitted regarding passenger rail routes, here is a link to an article regarding the fifteen new passenger rail routes proposed by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) that I mentioned, two of which would go through Kentucky: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/fra-releases-long-distance-study-interim-report-invites-comments/ .
Thank you,
Ron Schneider
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Kentucky should follow the European model of affordable rail service between rural communities that connects people and helps build local industries. The old rail beds are still there, so most of the dirt work is already completed. The only job left is to lay the rail ties and rails.
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I would love to see passenger rail between Louisville and Indianapolis, and Louisville and Cincinnati. And between some of the more rural parts of KY to Louisville. Just think of the positive impact regular passenger rail service would have on the entire state. And…… The federal govt is granting money for rail (although KY is behind in planning ).
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I would like something between Newport and Lexington and Knoxville
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I would like see L&N routes came back. Then High speed rail. from Louisville to Lexington. with stop near Bluegrass shops and Frankfort.
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Also merto train service Fern Creek, to J-town. J-town – Midddletown-St. Mattews. SDF to Dowtown. Also inculde service Dixie Hwy.
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CSX already cutoff the Ashland area for a route to Lexington/Louisville access.
What’s left of the former Lexington Sub cuts off just at I64 in Boyd County.
With maybe one customer on that route it’s a shame that Boyd County couldn’t work out a deal with CSX to lease or purchase the trackage and either develop it into a working highway to rail load transfer and/or a tourism route for some sort of scenic train ride or rail motor-car route.
I hope the last remaining portion doesn’t just get ripped up.
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I rode on the L&N from Bowling Green Kentucky to New Orleans and back in 1967. It seems that safe and family friendly transportation on the weekends from Indianapolis to Florida and/or the gulf would be appealing. This would/should not be daily scheduled transportation as with Greyhound buses, but setup more like a “river cruse” across the land.
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